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The controversial re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela will “worsen” attacks on the press, said Artur Romeu, the Latin America director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). He also warned of an escalation in the persecution of journalists in Nicaragua. Romeu is in Guatemala to visit journalist José Rubén Zamora, […]

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves condemned the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela, calling it “fraudulent.” “The government of Costa Rica categorically repudiates the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which we consider fraudulent,” Chaves said in […]

French bishops complained on Saturday about the “scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity” during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games which has upset some conservatives and has drawn mixed reviews. The opening had offered “wonderful moments of beauty, joy, rich emotions, and was universally praised,” a statement from […]

The international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced on Friday the disappearance, for two weeks, of Nicaraguan journalist Fabiola Tercero, amid a “wave of repression against the opposition press” in Nicaragua by Daniel Ortega’s government. Tercero has been “whereabouts unknown” since July 12 when “police forcibly entered” her home in […]

A group of United Nations experts slammed the Nicaraguan government’s “systematic” attacks against Christians in a report this week. Following another report released in March, the group of UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Monday described “systematic and widespread violations and abuses of international human rights law” documented against clerics. […]

Ten migrants died due to the rise of a river in an isolated area of Panama near the Caribbean coast and the border with Colombia, the border police (Senafront) reported on Wednesday. “In the river tributaries near the community of Carreto [in the indigenous region of Guna Yala], 10 bodies […]

The start of “deportations and expulsions” on charter and commercial flights of migrants entering Panama through the inhospitable Darién jungle is “imminent,” a U.S. official warned on Tuesday. This jungle, on the border between Colombia and Panama, has become a corridor for thousands of migrants from South America trying to […]

With a walk, ceremonies, dances, music, and a demonstration of the ancestral ball game, indigenous people commemorate this Saturday in a Mayan village in Guatemala the 500 years of “resistance” after the colonization of Spain. The activities began with a walk by the indigenous peoples of Guatemala, El Salvador, and […]

The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and his wife Rosario Murillo led an artistic and political event in Managua to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, attended by envoys from Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, and other countries. Thousands of people dressed in white attended the evening ceremony, which concluded […]

Forty-five years ago, the Sandinista guerrilla overthrew the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua. Today, President Daniel Ortega, in power for 17 years, faces accusations from opponents and critics of establishing a regime similar to the one he helped defeat. Here are five key points to understand the situation in Nicaragua: […]